List of Contributors Jochen Büttner Jochen Büttner studied physics and philosophy at Universität Konstanz and the Freie Universität Berlin where he received his physics diploma. Since 1998, he has worked as a historian of science at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, where he completed his Ph.D. thesis on the emergence of Galileo’s new science. Jochen Büttner has studied the role of so-called challenging objects as mediators between practical and theoretical knowledge in early modern mechanics. Within the framework of the Excellence Cluster 264 Topoi, he is currently directing the junior research group “Between Knowledge and Innovation: The Unequal-Armed Balance.” Sven Dupré Sven Dupré is professor of history of art, science, and technology at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam. He is the director of the project “Technique in the Arts: Concepts, Practices, Expertise, 1500–1950,” supported by a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant. Previously, he was professor of history of knowledge at the Freie Universität Berlin and director of the research group “Art and Knowledge in Premodern Europe” at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. In Spring 2015, he was Robert H. Smith scholar in residence for Renaissance sculpture in context at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. His recent publications include Embattled Territory: The Circulation of Knowledge in the Spanish Netherlands (Academia Press, 2015), Laboratories of Art: Alchemy and Art Technology from Antiquity to the 18th Century (Springer, 2014), Art and Alchemy: The Mystery of Transformation (Hirmer, 2014), and Translating Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries (LIT, 2012). Ursula Klein Ursula Klein is senior research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and professor of philosophy of science at Universität Konstanz. She is author of Verbindung und Affinität (Birkhäuser, 1994); Experiments, Models, Paper Tools: Cultures of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century (Stanford University Press, 2003); Humboldts Preußen: Wissenschaft und Technik im Aufbruch (WBG, 2015); and Nützliches Wissen: Die Erfindung der Technikwissenschaften (Wallstein, 2016) and coauthor of Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science, A Historical Ontology (MIT Press, 2007). Her current research project is concerned with hybrid experts and the “useful sci- ences” in the industrialization of Prussia. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017 475 M. Valleriani (ed.), The Structures of Practical Knowledge, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-45671-3 476 List of Contributors Richard L. Kremer Richard L. Kremer teaches history of science at Dartmouth College (USA) and curates that institu- tion’s collection of historic scientific instruments. His research deals with the “material culture” of Medieval and early modern European astronomy, its instruments, tables and computational tools, and products (calendars, almanacs, horoscopes, prognostications). Currently, Kremer is completing a book on astronomical ephemera printed in the fifteenth century and another on calendar-makers’ responses to Copernican, Tychonic, and Keplerian astronomy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Wolfgang Lefèvre Wolfgang Lefèvre was senior research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science until his retirement in 2006. His publications relevant to the volume’s topic are Naturtheorie und Produktionsweise (Luchterhand, 1978), Picturing Machines (ed.) (MIT Press, 2004), and Database Machine Drawings, together with Marcus Popplow. (2008 ff.: http://dmd.mpiwg-­berlin.mpg.de/ home). Elaine Leong Elaine Leong leads the “Reading and Writing Nature in Early Modern Europe” research group at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. She has published widely on early modern vernacular medicine and science and is the coeditor of Secrets and Knowledge: Medicine, Science and Commerce 1500–1800 (Ashgate Publishing, 2011). Pamela O. Long Pamela O. Long is an independent historian who has published widely in premodern and early mod- ern history of science and technology and cultural history. Her books include Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001) and Artisan/Practitioners and the Rise of the New Sciences, 1400– 1600 (Oregon State University Press, 2011). She is a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur fellow (2015–2020). Elizabeth M. Merrill Elizabeth M. Merrill is a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. She studied at Columbia University and at the University of Virginia, where she earned her Ph.D. Her research focuses on the role of the early modern architect, architectural design and building processes, and the structures of architectural collaboration and information exchange. Currently she is completing a book on the Sienese architect Francesco di Giorgio and the development of the early modern profession of architecture. Bruce T. Moran Bruce Moran is professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he teaches courses in the history of science and early medicine. He is the author of Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution (Harvard University Press, 2005) and Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy: Separating Chemical Cultures with Polemical Fire (Science History Publications International, 2007). Most recently, he has coedited Bridging Traditions: Alchemy, Chemistry, and Paracelsian Practices in the Early Modern Era (Truman State University Press, 2015). In progress are Things Made and Things in the Making: Sentiment and Practice in Early Modern Alchemy and Paracelsus: Recreating Body and Soul. List of Contributors 477 Pietro D. Omodeo Pietro Daniel Omodeo is research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin and member of the Collaborative Research Center Episteme in Motion at the Freie Universität Berlin. His research focuses on science, philosophy, and literature in the early modern period, as well as on historical epistemology. He authored Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance: Reception, Legacy, Transformation (Brill, 2014) and coedited the volume Duncan Liddel (1561– 1613): Networks of Polymathy and the Northern European Renaissance (Brill, 2016). Eileen Reeves Eileen Reeves is professor of comparative literature and an associate member of the program in the history of science at Princeton University. She took her Ph.D. in comparative literature from Stanford. She works at the intersection of early modern literary studies, the history of art, and the history of science. Much of her research has focused on the figure of Galileo Galilei and his relationship to astronomy, religion, optics, art, and a range of literary forms, including the scientific treatise and dia- logue, poetry, dialect literature, journalism, and drama. Her books include Painting the Heavens: Art and Astronomy in the Age of Galileo (Princeton University Press, 1997), Galileo’s Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror (Harvard 2008), On Sunspots (with Albert Van Helden, Harvard University Press, 2010), and Evening News: Optics, Astronomy, and Journalism in Early Modern Europe (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014). She is currently working on a book that deals with the evolution of printed images in the context of early modern astronomy. Other recent projects include essays on the relationships between optical and musical instruments, between astrology and literature, and between the new sciences and the visual arts. Dagmar Schäfer Dagmar Schäfer is director of Dept. 3, managing director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and professor h.c. of the history of technology at the Technische Universität Berlin. Her main interest is the history and sociology of technology of China, focusing on the paradigms configuring the discourse on technological development, past and present. She has published widely on materiality, the processes and structures that lead to varying knowledge systems, and the changing role of artifacts—texts, objects, and spaces—in the creation, diffusion, and use of scientific and technological knowledge. Her monograph The Crafting of the 10,000 Things (University of Chicago Press, 2011) won the Pfizer Award (History of Science Society) in 2012 and the Joseph Levenson Prize (pre-1900) (Association for Asian Studies) in 2013. Her current research focus is the historical dynamics of concept formation, situations, and experiences of action through which actors have explored, handled, and explained their physical, social, and individual worlds. Pamela H. Smith Pamela H. Smith is Seth Low professor of history and director of the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University where she teaches courses in early modern European history and history of science. Her books include The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire (Princeton University Press, 1994; Pfizer Prize);Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe (ed. with Paula Findlen, Routledge, 2002); The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution (University of Chicago Press, 2004; Leo Gershoy Prize); Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400–1800 (ed. with Benjamin Schmidt, University of Chicago Press, 2008); Ways of Making and Knowing: The Material